How Does a Seizure Occur?

Submit Your Tip

How Does a Seizure Occur? – This is a place for the community to provide tips and advice on How Does a Seizure Occur?. This topic was created by Andrea gaertner and the tips are provided by the community. The tips you add here can be your own or referred from another site. The best tips are then ranked at the top when up-voted by members of the community.

Tip 1 - Seizures-Topic Overview

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Farid Wassef | permalink

The brain controls how the body moves by sending out small electrical signals through the nerves to the muscles. Seizures, or convulsions, occur when abnormal signals from the brain change the way the body functions.
Tags: altered alterness, altered awareness, altered behavior, altered consciousness, behavior change, behaviour change, confusion, convulsions, decreased consciousness, fits, NES, non-epileptic seizure, nonepileptic seizures, pseudoseizures, seizure, seizure disorder

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/tc/seizures-topic-overview ^[1]

Tip 2 - What Happens During A Seizure?

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Maria Celorico | permalink

Seizures can take on many different forms, and seizures affect different people in different ways. Anything that the brain does normally can also occur during a seizure when the brain is activated by seizure discharges. Some people call this activity “electrical storms” in the brain.
Tags: aura,Melisssa

For further reading: http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/epilepsy-101/what-happens-during-seizure ^[2]

Tip 3 - Seizures: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by BOOMM | permalink

For further reading: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003200.htm ^[3]

Tip 4 - Epilepsy (Seizures): Learn about Facts and Treatments

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Keith M Porter | permalink

Learn about epilepsy, or seizure disorder. Causes include head injury, trauma, prenatal injury, poisoning, medications, stroke, heart attacks, alcoholism, infection, and more. Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment information is included in the information.

For further reading: http://www.medicinenet.com/seizure/article.htm ^[4]